After listening to these 13 responses, I learned a lot. Chris Thorsten (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/thorsten.html) believed that you weren’t an Iron worker unless you got killed. This is a bug eye opener because I believe you can be a worker once you are happy. I think that most people try not to get hurt. Listening to Marie Haggerty’s response, (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/marie.html) I was very surprised. I was expecting her to do a lot of housework, not so much work being a second maid. Jim Cole (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/jimcole.html) responded to where his packing house is by telling how he cannot be accepted because of one reason. That reason being that he is colored. I think that that is unfair. Listening to the excerpts from all different types of people, I now realize that life wasn’t easy or hard for one particular group. Mostly everyone had it bad.
BY GABBY
While I was reading the interviews I learned some significant information. One of the interviews I read was of Mr. Garavelli (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/garavel.html) where he talks about people on the other side of where he works that have to breathe in silica. Many of the men die from breathing too much of it in, but he was smart enough to work away from it. He said he may not make enough money but at least he doesn't have to deal with silica. I thought that this was surprising because I don't understand why people would still have their workers working with silica that they can breathe in when it killed many of them. I was happy to hear that Mr. Garavelli didn't want to work near it because of that problem. In another interview with Clyde "Kingfish" Smith ( http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/clyde.html) he told how he had to work hard to sell his fish since there were many other peddlers selling food. To attract attention he would sing. In Mrs. Elizabeth E. Miller's interview(http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/eliza.html) she says how she would have to do jobs that men did and when she did them they thought she was making it up. One time her husband got home late and so she had to do his job and when he came home and asked her who did it she said she did it alone. He was surprised that she did that. I think this isn't fair because women do work that men do and they don't credit for it. Also, women can do a lot of things that men can do and they don't even realize it so he shouldn't have been surprised when she said she did the job by herself.
By Callie
In the intervies I read, I found Alice Caudle's interview (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/alice.html) to be very interesting. I learned that a women that did her job well enough to be accepted by her work superiors and was very advanced. This women believed that if she were a man she would have gotten much farther. I believe it was unfair to have prejiduce in the work place. Another interview I found interesting was the interview of the man at Eddie's Bar(http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/manbar.html). This told about a man who was born in Jacksonville and had lived in New York for 25 years and believed he was a New Yorker but the city wasn't in him because of all the cruelty that went on.
After listening to these 13 responses, I learned a lot. Chris Thorsten (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/thorsten.html) believed that you weren’t an Iron worker unless you got killed. This is a bug eye opener because I believe you can be a worker once you are happy. I think that most people try not to get hurt. Listening to Marie Haggerty’s response, (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/marie.html) I was very surprised. I was expecting her to do a lot of housework, not so much work being a second maid. Jim Cole (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/jimcole.html) responded to where his packing house is by telling how he cannot be accepted because of one reason. That reason being that he is colored. I think that that is unfair. Listening to the excerpts from all different types of people, I now realize that life wasn’t easy or hard for one particular group. Mostly everyone had it bad.
BY GABBY
While I was reading the interviews I learned some significant information. One of the interviews I read was of Mr. Garavelli (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/garavel.html) where he talks about people on the other side of where he works that have to breathe in silica. Many of the men die from breathing too much of it in, but he was smart enough to work away from it. He said he may not make enough money but at least he doesn't have to deal with silica. I thought that this was surprising because I don't understand why people would still have their workers working with silica that they can breathe in when it killed many of them. I was happy to hear that Mr. Garavelli didn't want to work near it because of that problem. In another interview with Clyde "Kingfish" Smith ( http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/clyde.html) he told how he had to work hard to sell his fish since there were many other peddlers selling food. To attract attention he would sing. In Mrs. Elizabeth E. Miller's interview(http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/eliza.html) she says how she would have to do jobs that men did and when she did them they thought she was making it up. One time her husband got home late and so she had to do his job and when he came home and asked her who did it she said she did it alone. He was surprised that she did that. I think this isn't fair because women do work that men do and they don't credit for it. Also, women can do a lot of things that men can do and they don't even realize it so he shouldn't have been surprised when she said she did the job by herself.
By Callie
In the intervies I read, I found Alice Caudle's interview (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/alice.html) to be very interesting. I learned that a women that did her job well enough to be accepted by her work superiors and was very advanced. This women believed that if she were a man she would have gotten much farther. I believe it was unfair to have prejiduce in the work place. Another interview I found interesting was the interview of the man at Eddie's Bar(http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/manbar.html). This told about a man who was born in Jacksonville and had lived in New York for 25 years and believed he was a New Yorker but the city wasn't in him because of all the cruelty that went on.
By Stanley